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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the Nutcracker Suite?
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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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All power rests on hierarchy: An army is nothing but a well-organized lynch mob.
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We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
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The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
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Salome had but seven veils the artist has a thousand.
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Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
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We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
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Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him he harms nobody and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and noble height.
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Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
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The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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